Diving Bell seek to marry clean guitars and vocals with more abrasive textures in a genre of music they have arrogantly termed'Garage Prog'. They list their primary influences as The Smiths, Death From Above 1979 and Battles while describing themselves as'reverb guitar ponce and fuzzy bass bastard tapdancing to octoputian polyrhythm. ' How could you resist?
The Walk Uprights are a North London fourpiece who make timeless, tousled pop music. The hooks come thick, fast, and heavy with Hammond Organ and feedback fuzz, and songs clocking in under three minutes.
Impish lyric peddler with a broken glass voice. Conjuring little tales with melodies and yelps. Perhaps if you spliced Dylan with Frank Black? Celebrating making the song"Nudists with really big heads" available for people to own for the first time.